Reviews: McCaffrey, Anne

Restoree —
Anne McCaffrey

Anne
McCaffrey’s standalone SF novel Restoree
was
her debut novel.

Snatched
by monstrous aliens, embittered spinster Sara wakes from nightmares
to find herself transformed from an all-too-Semitic-looking woman
whom nobody could possibly love to a beauty. Her current
captors are using her as grunt labor in a mental institution. They
regard her as semi-intelligent and unthreatening.

Her
masters’ underestimation of Sara’s cognitive abilities will prove
their undoing.

Decision at Doona —
Anne McCaffrey
Doona, book 1

On
the one hand, I am not a fan of Anne McCaffrey’s fiction. On the
other, she was a significant figure in the field, one of just five
women named Grand
Master of Science Fiction;
at some point I need to acknowledge her. I find that I do
have some of her books1. One of those books is the initially
standalone2 1969 novel Decision
at Doona.